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The 4chanx extension (userscript, run it in violentmonkey or equivalent) lets you nest comments in a chain to make following threads easy while maintaining the overall chronological state of the threads. You can also hide a reply, and it will automatically hide the entire chain of replies to that reply.

The Reddits 2 years ago

Hah, I saw this:

    Steve was not a big fan of authority, so he also liked the idea of a site without editors.
and remembered him getting prod database access to censor comments criticizing him. I guess it's true what they say about power corrupting you.

Microsoft, Google, and other companies have all determined that about 70% of CVEs are memory-related. Here's the US government's take: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/urgent-need-memory-saf...

These memory-related exploits disappear with Rust aside from in "unsafe" blocks (possibly the worst named keyword in any language... it should have been called "trusted"), and that means you have a smaller and more easily auditable attack surface for these types of memory-related exploits. Some code (e.g., FFI) can't be verified as memory-safe by the Rust compiler at compilation time so "unsafe" is there as an escape hatch. I've written a bunch of Rust since 2014 building things like webservers, realtime futures processing algorithms, MEV bots, etc., and I've only had to use "unsafe" a few times.

I've also worked in security on products at Fortune 100 companies, and C is a constant nightmare for CVEs. I think I have PTSD from having to update libcurl. The more software we have written in memory safe languages, the better off we all are.

Hey, thanks for the response! There have been a lot of across the board improvements in the kernel in the last four years so I'm surprised there's not a noticeable performance improvements in 6.2 (although I also consider 6.2 old at this point).

Wayland doesn't fractionally scale chrome, chromium, chromium, chromium, chromium, and other appimage and non-native applications.

The absolute state of desktop applications in 2023. Everything is a web browser. God help us all.